Music
Fest Focus: The Dudes
Every first-time pilgrim to Jazz Fest has a “conversion band”: a musical discovery so ear-opening that it transcends the event’s numerous minor epiphanies. For me, and for many other Fest-goers […]
Robert Earl Keen, Gravitational Forces (Lost Highway)
“Hello New Orleans,” the second track on Keen’s latest dispatch from the high-lonesome end of the Lone Star state, is more about leaving Amarillo than about arriving in the Crescent […]
Francis X. Pavy: Zydeco Picasso
Swamp pop painter Francis X. Pavy makes art you can dance to. Born on the bayous of southwest Louisiana, his one-man-band of amplified visuals reach out and grab you like […]
John Campbell: One Believer
Shadows dance in liquid pools of light spilled by candles, dozens of them, burning steadily into this midsummer night. Ancient skulls stare down at us with hollow-eyed serenity. And though […]
